Staple-fastener for wooden vessels or boxes



(No Model.)-

P. W. RICHEY. STAPLE FASTENER FOR WOODEN VESSELS 0R BOXES. No. 527,184.Patented Oct. 9, 1894.

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FRANK W. RIOHEY, OFGHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STAPLE-FASTENER FOR WOODEN VESSELS OR BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,184, dated October9, 1894.

Application filed November 27,1893- Serial No. 492.177. (No model.)

. citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the countyofCook andState of Illinois,h ave invented certain new andusefulIrnprovements in Stap1e-Fasteners for Wooden Vessels or Boxes, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being bad therein tothe accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to staple fasteners for wooden vesselsand boxes.

The main and primary object of the present invention is to provide acheap and suitable device of this characterthat can be readlly appliedto wooden vessels and boxes by anyone without special instructions, andto this end the invention therefore contemplates a simple and usefuldevice of thischaracter providing effective means for securing covers topacking boxes, tobacco pails, jelly boxes, ialgd, butter, candy andother pails, and the With these and other objects in view which willreadily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood,thesame consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement ofparts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a staplefastener constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an endview thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail cross sectional view of theflexiblemain body portion of the fastener, the lines X-X and FFindicating the difference in the thickness and width of the wirecomprising the body portion. Fig. 4 is a detail plan view showing asection or length of wire illustrating the manner of manufacturing theherein described fastener. Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating one ofthe improved staple fasteners as applied to a box preparatory to drivingthe point-shanks. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing one of the fastenersafter having been applied to a package showing the angle of the pointshanks as they appear when driven into the wood.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A designates the main straightbody portion of a staple fastener adapted to be used at the corner of abox or package for the purpose of securing the coverthereto, and saidbody portion A, is formed out of a suitable length of flexible wirerolled into half oval shape to provide the fastener with a flattenedside a, which clamps fiat onto the box or package and the cover which itsecures thereto, and as illustrated in Fig. 3, of the drawings the widthof the body portion of the fastener, indicated by the lines F-F isgreater than the thickness thereof,thereby providing acoustruction ofstaple fastener having the necessary strength, while at the same timerequiring only one half the amount of material to manufacture the samethat is required for the manufacture of similar fasteners formed out ofround wire.

The main body portion A, of the staple fastener has bent from both endsthereof at about an angle of ninety-five degrees the do.- plicatepoint-shanks B, that are adapted to enter the box side and the coverthat is to be secured thereto by the fastener. The outer extremities ofthe point-shanks B, are provided at both sides of the longitudinalcenter of the fastener with the point 'bevels E, the outer side edges 0,of which bevels taper at an angle of about forty-five degrees to theentering point D, of the fastener. The point bevels E, are madeuniformly on the point extremities of both of the shanks B, and byreason of being formed at both sides of the longitudinal center of thefastener such bevels form at their inner meeting edges the central pointridge G, that is disposed in alignment with the longitudinal center ofthe fastener and also tapers to the point D, and the said point bevelsE, are out or formed on an angle of about ninety degrees from thecentral point ridge G, to the outer side edges 0, that taper into thesharp points D.

The specific construction of points de scribed, provide the fastenerswith points having knife edges Gand O, which together with the pointbevels forming these knife edges form points of a half diamond shapethat will out their way into the wood of the cover of the box or packageirrespective of (homo of the grain without a splitting of the wood. Itwill be further noted that the specific construction of the pointextremities of the pointshanks provides means whereby the said pointswill be forced inward at a sharper angle to the main body portion A, asthe same in position.

alignment with the body portion'thereof is overcome, inasmuch as theherein described points of the fasteners are duplicate constructions andare made to correspond on both sides of the longitudinal center of thefastener, so that in driving the pointsin they will drive perfectlyparallel, or in other words I will not turn or twist out of longitudinalalignment with the body of the fastener, and this feature is of theutmost importance in securing covers to packages.

In manufacturing the herein-described fastener, a single length of Wireof the proper size and strength is out into the proper lengths to form anumber of thefasteners as is illustrated inFig. 4, of the drawings,ittbeing understood that any suitable machine capable of performing thework isused to make the, fasteners. By reference to Figs, of thedrawings,'it will be seen that one point is claimed, and desired toextremity is shown completed, While the other end shows the imprint ofthe cutting knives of the machine employed to manufacture the fastener,such machine providing for cutting or shaping two points at oneoperation, while at the same time substantially severing the fastenerand leaving the same cut and ready for bending into the proper shapedescribed.

Having thusdescribed the invention, what be secured by Letters Patent,is The herein-described staple fastener for wooden vessels and boxesformed of a single length of wireand comprisinga straight bodyportion'having duplicate point-shanks bent fro in both ends thereof atan angle, said pointshanks being provided at theirout'er extremitiesWith duplicate point bevels formed at both sides of the longitudinalcenters thereof and tapered at the other-outer side edges into anentering point, said point bevels meeting at the center of the shanks ina point ridge also tapering to the entering point, substantially as setforth.

In testimony WhereofI affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK vV. RIOHEY. Witnesses:

SOL. FREEHLING, MORRIS J AOOBSON.

